Coronavirus live updates: India reports 43,393 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours
India reported 43,393 new cases in the last 24 hours on Friday. 911 deaths were also reported due to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The country's active caseload is now at 4,58,727, constituting 1.49% of total cases. The daily positivity rate continues to be less than 3% for the 18 consecutive days.
With the third Covid wave lurking, the government looks to ramp up oxygen production
The government is stepping up efforts to ramp up oxygen production and supply infrastructure for a possible third wave of Covid-19 and is looking at setting up facilities near large cities such as Delhi and Mumbai as well as creating buffer stocks to meet the requirements in case of a spike.
In addition to steps already announced, such as setting up of over 1,200 Pressure Swing Adsorption oxygen generators, the idea is to have the infrastructure to meet nearly half the requirement of the large cities, which had to deal with a large chunk of the cases.
Storage is the other focus area with attempts being made to rapidly scape up filling capacity, which will also reduce the need for frequent replenishment of stocks. Besides, discussions are underway to create storage hubs in the states so that the requirement can be met to a large extent.
The second wave had necessitated the massive movement of liquid medical oxygen from “surplus states” such as Jharkhand and Odisha to Delhi, Karnataka, and Maharashtra to meet the unprecedented requirement.
Those such as Delhi, which do not have production facilities, failed to even organize tankers to ship oxygen leaving the entire management to the Centre.
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